• Guide Dogs Finally Granted Permission to Ride London Overground Trains

  By Reb_BEvans at 23:29 on 05/10/11

  

  In March this year Leader of the Liberal Democrat London Assembly Group, Caroline Pidgeon contacted the Mayor's office at City Hall, to request allowing guide dogs access on moving escalators and tubes. On the 23rd March 2011 Caroline Pidgeon raised the issue with the Mayor at Mayor's Question Time, a webcast can be seen here. Boris Johnson expressed his support for the campaign, replying personally to Ms Pigeon, in his letter dated...

• Train Fares Set To Rise For The Fourth Year, Are The Olympics To Blame?

  By Reb_BEvans at 12:08 on 21/09/11

  

  Boris Johnson has announced that travel costs on London's transport network are set to rise by 8% next January, for the fourth consecutive year! The Mayor's decision means that as from next year the cost of taking a bus, tram or DLR train with on Oyster pay-as-you-go will rise from by 10p to £1.40 and a day bus pass goes up to £4.20. Oyster pay-as-you-go tube fares will rise to up to 30p, taking the price of a single...

• Ken Livingstone Pledges Crystal Palace Tram Extension

  By Reb_BEvans at 09:17 on 05/04/11

  

  With the race to the London Mayoral Elections next May currently in full swing, as always the candidates have already started their predictable pledges to gain public support. Labour hopeful Ken Livingstone started his tour of Croydon early to gauge local views, but criticism of his plans to extend the Tramlink to Crystal Palace next year, which he is making his top priority if he wins the Mayoral race in May 2012. Livingstone's...

• Mayor previously said there was no money

  By CrystalPalace People at 08:00 on 01/04/11

  

  TRAMS are to be extended to Crystal Palace, Mayor of London, Boris Johnson has announced. But he would not be drawn on when the new line might open or how the project would be financed. Mr Johnson said: "We will now be looking at the whole scheme in detail. There will be issues around the timing and we will be looking at ways of financing it." The Mayor's announcement last Thursday comes just a fortnight after Labour's Mayoral...

• Claim Compensation For Delays To Your Train Journeys

  By Reb_BEvans at 13:25 on 15/03/11

  

  Delays, cancellations, engineering works and overcrowding are a sad fact for commuters in London and while there is little that can be done about the distinct lack of seats, personal space or the rather dubious body odour of some passengers I've had the disatisfaction of being squeezed next to, you can definitely do something about having your journey disrupted courtesy of Transport for London. Thanks to a press release from the London...

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